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The Islamic State is a movement without an actual state anymore, says Iraq. "Their fictitious state has fallen," declared a spokesman for Iraq's military after its troops reclaimed the ruins of a landmark mosque in Mosul on Thursday. ISIS fighters had destroyed much of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque last week...read more

Iraqi forces Thursday captured the compound of a landmark mosque in Mosul that was blown up last week by Islamic State — a hugely symbolic site from where the top Islamic State leader declared a caliphate nearly three years ago. The...

By Khaled al-Ramahi and Maher Chmaytelli MOSUL/ERBIL, IRAQ- After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of Islamic State’s de facto capital Mosul, and the...

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces captured on Thursday the wrecked historic mosque of Mosul in which Islamic State proclaimed its self-styled "caliphate" three years ago, an Iraqi military statement said.